WARD
(Mary Augusta, 1851-1920, 'Mrs Humphry Ward', Australian-born Novelist, Granddaughter of Arnold of Rugby)
Signature from the end of an Autograph Letter Signed
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0
Stock No:
8830
£10
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WARD
(Mary Augusta, 1851-1920, ‘Mrs Humphry Ward’, Australian-born Novelist, Granddaughter of Arnold of Rugby)
Autograph Formal Letter in the third person
thanking “the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress for their very kind invitation to luncheon Monday Dec 31st. She regrets that she cannot accept it, as she is going down to the country... and will not be in town again for some time...”, 1 side 8vo., 25 Grosvenor Place, 13th December
Item Date:
1906
Stock No:
41953
£75
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WARNER
(Rex, b. 1905, Author)
Autograph Letter Signed to Mr Huggett,
thanking him for his "extremely kind letter - It always does one good to hear that someone has enjoyed what one has done ..." but regretting that he cannot send him any piece of manuscript as he has "just given away the few things I had left to the University Library here ... most of the best stuff I sold at various times when I was short of money ...", and he says he is shortly returning to England, 1 side A4 on an air letter with autograph address on the verso, Horse Barn Hill Lane, Storrs, Connecticut, 23rd March
Item Date:
1974
Stock No:
3613
£18
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WARREN
(Samuel, 1807-1877, F.R.S., Q.C., M.P., Novelist and Legal Writer)
Autograph Letter Signed to Henry James Perry,
(1800-1869, from 1846 Commissioner in Lunacy for Liverpool District), saying he will "endeavour to come over early. I want to have a long chat with both of you - & hope we shall be alone, if so it seemeth good to you both. Lord Derby will do", signature repeated with addressee's name on verso, 1 side oblong 8vo., no place, no date,c.
short tear in one fold, traces of laying down on blank portion of verso, addressee's name curtailed on verso
Item Date:
1850
Stock No:
16447
£20
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WARREN
(Sir Herbert, 1854-1930, President of Magdalen College, Oxford 1885-1928)
Typed letter signed to Mrs. M.C. Strachey,
saying he has wanted to write to her "to tell you how very specially I like and enjoy your little volume 'Sketches in Verse' ", for "its classical finish. The themes are much to my mind, but the treatment is even more so. The blending too of Rome and London, of the Latin lands and seas with Somerset, has a special attraction for me ... for instance 'The Manor House' and 'Tivoli' side by side, make a peculiarly delicious blend", withan obituary notice of Warren from the 'Spectator', 14th June 1930, "As an undergraduate he was ... a brilliant classical scholar ... When he became Professor of Poetry ... he astonished many persons who had not been aware of the wideness of his reading or the power of his enthusiasm", the letter 1 side 4to., Magdalen College, 21st February,
light traces of old transparent tape in blank margins
Item Date:
1918
Stock No:
16446
£30
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